Lucille McNamara

MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Ore. — U.S. Magistrate Judge Stacie F. Beckerman has ruled in favor of a class-action lawsuit claiming that Multnomah County, the former sheriff, and two former corrections officers failed to protect prisoners subjected to…

Facing a $29.2 million budget shortfall, the University of Oregon has embarked on a second round of job cuts, this time affecting 60 staff members. The cutbacks do not affect tenure-track faculty staff - university professors hired for a…

GRESHAM, Ore. — A 21-year-old has been arrested and rewards of $5,000 each offered for information leading to the arrest of two other suspects in a shooting incident that killed a young teenage boy, Liam Spahnie-Bailey, as he lay sleeping…

Preparations are underway to reinforce building structures larger than 50,000 square feet in Oregon to cope with a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake, often referred to as the ‘Big One.’ The Last Earthquake Generated a Tsunami…

PORTLAND, Ore. — The triple homicide in the Brentwood-Darlington Neighborhood on Saturday was the tragic aftermath of a 22-year-old male who is believed to have shot his mother and 10-year-old sister before turning the gun on himself,…

Brian Thomas Balda (52) of Oregon has been sentenced to three years and three months in prison after a federal jury found him guilty of one count of Cyber stalking and one count of Interstate stalking. According to the Arizona Department…

An Oregon couple, who are members of an insular religious sect that believes that faith heals all, have been sentenced to 30 days in jail for failing to obtain assistance when their two-day-old newborn died after stopping to eat and…

PORTLAND, Ore. — The bodies of three people were found at a Portland home in the Brenton-Darlington Neighborhood by East Precinct officers who were responding to a report of a suspected suicide. The incident, reported at 5.05 p.m., took…

SALEM, Ore. — Salem police officers were involved in a shooting incident on Saturday afternoon after responding to a report of a burglary near the 4300 block of 25th Avenue NE. According to a police news release, a subject fired shots at…

Following a trial lasting almost two weeks before U.S. District Judge Marco A. Hernandez, an eight-man jury awarded $15.8 million for pain and suffering and economic damages to an Oregon couple following an injury to their nine-year-old son…